Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoplein 1909...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth16 July 1862
CountryUnited States of America
afros spirit
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
lynching arms can-do
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
country baby believe
I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.
country lynching insane
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
character men cities
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival,
lynching should-have spirit
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
girl men yield
The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White men lynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.
men white-man victory
The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
men lynching bravery
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
reading men doors
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
race afros fallen
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
cutting lynching ears
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
responsibility goal african-american
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
party lynching punishment
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.